Comments on: MacBook Country – Part 1 http://aaronstaves.com/2008/08/01/macbook-country-part-1/ Not quite extinct! Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:39:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MacBook Country - Part 2 » AaronStaves.com http://aaronstaves.com/2008/08/01/macbook-country-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-56 MacBook Country - Part 2 » AaronStaves.com Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:47:54 +0000 http://aaronstaves.com/?p=16#comment-56 [...] in my previous post I've outlined some of the better features that go along with converting over to OS X; specifically [...] [...] in my previous post I’ve outlined some of the better features that go along with converting over to OS X; specifically [...]

]]> By: Joe http://aaronstaves.com/2008/08/01/macbook-country-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Joe Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:04:04 +0000 http://aaronstaves.com/?p=16#comment-46 Hey, good to see you go this one up. I look forward to the "Bad" part though, mostly so I can chime in and agree. I've come to really love Growl. Since we use IM at work very often, seeing chats without switching window focus is invaluable. As for Quicksilver, I'd love to see how it saves you time and how you do what you do with it. I used it for a day and didn't see what all the fuss was about. I use <a href="http://amarsagoo.info/namely/" rel="nofollow">Namely</a> to launch my apps since it uses less resources and that's all I was doing with Qs anyway. One app I recently stumbled into and would HIGHLY recommend is <a href="http://www.cocoatech.com/pf4/" rel="nofollow">Path Finder</a>, a Finder replacement. It's not free (such is the curse of OSX, which I expect you'll cover in the next section), but it's one app that may be worth paying for. It's like Finder on steroids, and it seems to use less resources than Finder while so so much more. Lastly, so you use any apps to manage your MySQL databases? If so, what do you use? We use <a href="http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Cocoa MySQL</a> at work, but while it gets the job done it's far from ideal. Hey, good to see you go this one up. I look forward to the “Bad” part though, mostly so I can chime in and agree.

I’ve come to really love Growl. Since we use IM at work very often, seeing chats without switching window focus is invaluable.

As for Quicksilver, I’d love to see how it saves you time and how you do what you do with it. I used it for a day and didn’t see what all the fuss was about. I use Namely to launch my apps since it uses less resources and that’s all I was doing with Qs anyway.

One app I recently stumbled into and would HIGHLY recommend is Path Finder, a Finder replacement. It’s not free (such is the curse of OSX, which I expect you’ll cover in the next section), but it’s one app that may be worth paying for. It’s like Finder on steroids, and it seems to use less resources than Finder while so so much more.

Lastly, so you use any apps to manage your MySQL databases? If so, what do you use? We use Cocoa MySQL at work, but while it gets the job done it’s far from ideal.

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